A first edition, first printing, inscribed copy of the Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939.<ul><li>Robert Frost (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Henry Holt and Company,&nbsp;[1939].</li><li>436 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Includes a frontispiece portrait.</li><li>Inscribed with an early draft of the poem "Come In."</li></ul>

Collected Poems of Robert Frost 1939

An autographed manuscript signed and inscribed, "A Preview for Nita and Doc from R.F., After a good Bread Loaf, 1946."<ul><li>Robert Frost (American).</li><li>16 pages.</li><li>Includes 8 poems that would be published in Steeple Bush (1947).</li><li>Inscribed for Reginald Lansing Cook (1903-1984) and his wife Lydia Juanita Cook.</li><li>Side-stitched, with custom green half-morocco slipcase and matching chemise.</li></ul> Included Poems:1) "To an Ancient"2) "Something to Hope For": variant title ["Something for Hope" in published book]; line 12 starts "And in" (as in E38), rather than "And with" in book; line 15 has "noxious weed" rather than "wasteful weed" in book; line 17 starts "A cycle of say" (as in E38), rather than "A cycle we'll say" in book; line 21 ends in an exclamation point ("!") but in a comma (",") in the book3) "One Step Backward Taken"4) "Why Wait for Science"5) "But He Meant It": variant title, first published as such in The Atlantic Monthly (April, 1947) ["The Broken Drought" in book]6) "The Courage to Be New": has a quatrain, listed here as a postscript, that is cut in the published book: No one cavails at their killing / And being killed for speed. / Then why are we unwilling / They should do as much for creed? [The third line appears in E42, the fourth line appears in E38, with punctuation from E42]7) "A Mood Apart"8) "Bravado"

Autographed Manuscript of Poems

Proof copies of the first separate edition of the poem A Considerable Speck.&nbsp;<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2&nbsp;single folio sheets.</li><li>Includes one uncorrected page proof of the 33-line poem, without the printed title page, and with printer’s manuscript corrections and directions in red ink; and one final proof copy, with "Original Proof" printed on title-page.</li><li>Robert Frost (American).</li><li>Both copies are uncut on cream woven paper watermarked "HANDMADE”.</li><li>Laid in a custom green cloth chemise.</li></ul> Laid in is a photocopy of the handbill titled “The Colonial Society of Massachusetts” detailing the poem’s history: “This poem was written and delivered by Robert Frost at the Annual Dinner on November twenty-first, 1939. It has been printed by Mr. Dard Hunter, Jr. from the first font of type that he has cut and cast himself, and is one of the first pieces of printing. It is on hand-made paper, made by him and his father, an authority on paper, with whom he is associated at the Dard Hunter Paper Museum at Massachusetts Institute of Technology....” A Considerable Speck was first printed in the Atlantic Monthly in July, 1939. The first separate edition consisted of fewer than 100 copies, according to Crane.

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